Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:59:44 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@intranet.com.mx> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Kind of off topic. Message-ID: <AANLkTimcjOyvTLhO1tr7PUp4Va4YZ7fgeJF2futHc9%2BL@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3375127378-437632400@intranet.com.mx> References: <3375127378-437632400@intranet.com.mx>
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On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@intranet.com.mx>wrote: > Hello all. > > A friend is asking me to help him to solve some problem he has in his > servers. To some I would be able to connect using ssh, with other just it i > snot possible. I remember that on the windows world there was a commercial > software PCANywhere. He can have it but I am not sure if I would be able to > connect to that from my Freebsd machine (of course not by ssh). > What are you using for connecting to graphical interfaces of different OS's > from FreeBSD? > I tested some years ago a VNC software but did not work fine with MAC OSX > (recently released by then). > I know big security factors are involved for sure. > Any suggestion on what to use, not to expensive or free? > If you're connecting to Windows clients, use RDP, not VNC. /usr/ports/net/rdesktop /usr/ports/net/freerdp To X11 and other type clients, VNC. You can use /usr/ports/net/freenx and /usr/ports/net/linux-nx-client/ for a better experience although I haven't gotten that portion working under FreeBSD before. Once it's setup though it's way faster than an equal bandwidth/setttings RDP connection. -- Adam Vande More
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